[OSM-dev] GSOC Project: "Make the website use the API"

[Paul Norman]

I wrote a blog post on how to get started with the API projects: 
http://paulnorman.ca/blog/2018/02/make-the-website-use-the-api-gsoc-project/

I recommend steps 2, 4, and 5 for anyone applying for a project which 
interacts with the API.


On 2/13/2018 9:08 AM, IMT2016050 Biswesh Mohapatra wrote:
> Hello, My name is  Biswesh. I am a second year Computer Science 
> student and am very keen on contributing to OSM for GSOC 2018. I have 
> been looking into the idea list for GSOC 2018 and found out the 
> project - “ Make the website use the API “ proposed by Paul Norman 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Pnorman> to be very 
> interesting as the concept can be very useful for OSM and also because 
> it seems to be a bit challenging. I have some prior knowledge of 
> Javascript, Ruby on Rails and also have some basic knowledge of REST api.
>
> Although I don’t have much knowledge about implementing the idea, I 
> searched a bit about it and found out some useful articles which 
> showed some advantages of changing the website to rely on API calls 
> instead of directly accessing the database. I have given the links here:
>
> http://solnic.eu/2011/08/01/making-activerecord-models-thin.html
>
> http://jamesgolick.com/2010/3/14/crazy-heretical-and-awesome-the-way-i-write-rails-apps.html
>
> I have also searched a bit about implementing the project and found 
> out that the following can be useful:
>
> Active rest client - https://github.com/whichdigital/active-rest-client
>
> Active resource - https://github.com/rails/activeresource
>
> I would like to be guided on this project idea so that I can prepare 
> myself better for it. Also if I could be provided some better sources 
> through which I can have a better understanding of the problem then I 
> would be grateful.
>
> On a side note - I would also like to ask if we can explore about 
> migrating the entire rest based workflow to some of the emerging 
> technologies like graphQL.
>
> My GitHub account:
> https://github.com/biswesh456
>
>
> Regards
> Biswesh Mohapatra
>
>
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